[frankjr]

Not expanded powers, just the powers granted by the Constitution.

[RobbyS]

"He has no legal basis for spying on Americans without court approval," said Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. ,p> (1) Durbin talks as though the Constitution did not separately empower the President and he he cannot act excepts a prescribed by Congress. (2) He speaks as though FISA did not allow for exceptions. Any reasonable action must allow for the monitoring of calls that extend outside the country, where the writ of our courts does not run.